| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Oct 4-6) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros) | £5.7m | £5.7m | 1 |
| 2. | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros) | £1.1m | £22.8m | 5 |
| 3. | Speak No Evil (Universal) | £408,214 | £4.8m | 4 |
| 4. | The Substance (Mubi) | £358,000 | £2.2m | 3 |
| 5. | The Outrun (Studiocanal) | £319,542 | £1.1m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.31
Warner Bros blockbuster Joker: Folie à Deux topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend; but its £5.7m start was 54.9% down on the £12.6m opening of the 2019 first film.
Folie à Deux took an £7,826 average from 725 cinemas – also down 58.2% on the £18,734 average from 671 sites of Joker.
A potential yardstick for Folie à Deux’s performance is 2021 comic book sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which opened to £6.2m and ended on £18.1m.
Warner Bros achieved a box office one-two this weekend, with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropping down a place following four weeks in top spot. Tim Burton’s comedy-horror sequel took £1.1m - a 37.8% drop - and is up to £22.8m in total.
Universal’s Blumhouse Productions horror Speak No Evil is putting in a good showing, dropping 37% on its fourth session with £408,214 taking it to £4.8m.
Coralie Fargeat’s body horror The Substance posted the best hold of all new films in the top 20, dropping just 15% across its third weekend in cinemas. It added £358,000 from 411 cinemas with an £871 location average up on last weekend; and has £2.2m in total, as the second-highest-grossing title ever in the territory for distributor Mubi, behind only Priscilla (£3.3m) from January.
Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan also posted a decent hold, falling just 19.6% with £319,542 taking it to £1.1m from two weekends for Studiocanal.
Despicable Me 4 dropped out of the top five on its 13th weekend in cinemas; but still added a further £295,462. The Illumination animation is up to £47.4m, just behind Despicable Me 2 (£47.5m), Minions (£47.8m) and Despicable Me 3 (£47.9m), and ahead of Minions: The Rise Of Gru (£47m).
Sky Cinema title Lee, released by Studiocanal, added £237,762 on its fourth weekend – a 40.7% drop that took it to £3.4m total.
Universal opened Aaron Schimberg’s Sundance title A Different Man starring Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve to £88,811, at a £415 site average. The film has £88,947 including previews.
The Shaun Of The Dead 20th-anniversary re-release added a further £22,885 on its second session for Universal, and is up to £454,708.
More to come.
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